South Shore golfers play for PGA Junior title

A team of 10 local boys won the new PGA Junior league's New England championship and will now play for the Northeast title at Race Brook Country Club in Orange, Conn.

The Patriot Ledger, Quincy, MA

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Posted Aug. 8, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Aug 8, 2013 at 8:00 AM

Posted Aug. 8, 2013 at 12:01 AM
Updated Aug 8, 2013 at 8:00 AM

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A team of 10 local boys won the new PGA Junior league's New England championship and will now play for the Northeast title at Race Brook Country Club in Orange, Conn.

Zach Berube of Acushnet, Logan Berube of Acushnet, Jacob Yeomans of the Bay Club, Collin Fitzpatrick of Kittansett, Jason Gamache of the Bay Club, Luke Myers of Raynham, Dillon Brown of Halifax, Kyle Sylvester of Hanover, Owen Fontaine of Halifax and Casey Grindle of Halifax are scheduled to play Saturday against New Jersey and Pennsylvania.

On Sunday they will play Connecticut and the winner of those matches will advance to the National Championship at TPC Sugarloaf in Atlanta from Sept. 6-8.

The South Shore league consisted of Halifax Country Club, Plymouth Country Club, Lebaron Hills, Bay Club, Kittansett and Acushnet River Valley. South Shore advanced by beating Cape Cod and Northeast.

Junior League Golf, which uses a nine-hole, scramble format, launched as a pilot program in 2011, with teams competing in Atlanta, Tampa, Dallas and San Diego.

Lat year, the program had nearly 2,000 participants on more than 120 teams in 20 markets.